“The Role of the Individual in Evolution” is a prescient yet neglected 1941 work by 20th century’s most important paleontologist, George Gaylord Simpson. In curious intermingling explanation and critique, Simpson engages questions that would become increasingly fundamental modern biological theory philosophy. Did individuality, adaptation, evolutionary causation reside at more than one level: c...

the relationship between moscow and the peripheral republics of the soviet :union: has been a controversial issue. the complicatedness and implications of this relationship was to a degree recognized during the soviet era. yet it was after the collapse of the communist regime that its real scope and significance were revealed, especially in central asian and caucasian republics where a variety ...

This article discusses Tracy Chevalier’s A Single Thread (2019), with an emphasis on the parallels between writer’s interest in women’s resilient experiences, which lead to individual and community agency, role played these by cultural practices such as embroidery bell-ringing. focus is interwar period its closeness totalitarianism. Based aspects from theory of resilience (Cyrulnik 2006; Herman...

Pedagogy of the Primate Millennium, Cardinal Stefan Wyszy?ski An analysis source texts and selected biographical studies was carried out from perspectives processes secularization taking place in Poland year AD 2020, radical attacks left-wing politicians on Catholic Church its relationship with current governing coalition known as United Right [Zjednoczona Prawica]. This strikes at foundations ...

Throughout history both democratic and totalitarian States have sought to take advantage of the possible political contributions art culture. This study presents first in-depth historical relationship between accounting culture in a State; Fascist State Italy 1934 1945. Accounting documents form budgets reports provided by government, along with other accounts prepared Fascists, were used build...

This article starts by reviewing the negative account of utopian thinking in dominant liberal western political theory, through the positing of a link between utopianism and totalitarianism, as present in the writings of liberal writers like Hayek, Popper, Berlin and others. As such, this article constitutes a critique of the liberal theories of utopianism and totalitarianism as well as positin...

This article identifies Algeria as a significant, if obscure, topos in Arendt's writing. It traces various moments of this encounter across oeuvre , well-known texts, such The Origins Totalitarianism (1951) and “On Violence” (1969), well lesser-known writings, “Why the Crémieux Decree Was Abrogated” (1943). In pursuing trajectory, argues that sustained engagement with reflects an ongoing ambiva...

I began working on this article in the winter of 2022, when Russia's invasion Ukraine shattered fragile stability Europe. Artur Solomonov's tragifarce How We Buried Josef Stalin (2019) speaks directly to catastrophic time but also legacy Stalinism Russia. ‘A play about flexibility and immortality’, farce confronts its audience with dilemma Stalinism, which Putin's putrid regime continues mobili...